Sunday 20 August 2017

Standing at work linked to heart disease

Standing at work linked to heart disease

If you tend to do a lot of standing at work, you may want to be sitting down to read this. A study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that workers who primarily stand on the job are twice as likely to have heart disease than workers who mainly sit. That puts them more at risk of getting heart disease than smokers, said Peter Smith, a scientist from the Institute for Work and Health (IWH) and lead author of the study.

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